Register for the MBA's Centennial Conference by April 1 and receive $50 off a full conference pass

The MBA's Centennial Conference, a celebration of the MBA's
century of service to the public, profession and rule of law, will
take place on Wednesday, May 18 and Thursday, May 19 at the Boston
Sheraton Hotel.

The conference will feature three concurrent CLE tracks, the
annual Access to Justice Awards Luncheon and Bench/Bar Panel and
reception on May 18, and the Centennial Ball on May 19. The ball,
which will wrap-up the two-day conference, will include a special
MBA Hennessey Award presentation to retiring U.S. District Court
Judge Nancy Gertner and will also feature a keynote address from
Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer.

Family Law Update; Uniform Probate Code Update; Secret Weapons
for the Personal Injury Attorney; Trends in Employment Law

Look for the full schedule of programming, including
descriptions and faculty, as well as information about the rest of
the conference events in future issues of Lawyers Journal,
Lawyers e-Journal and in e-mail communication.

Centennial Ball
highlights

The MBA's Centennial Ball on Thursday, May 19 will include a
special Hennessey Award presentation to Gertner and a keynote
address from Breyer.

Gertner, who will be retiring from the bench in fall 2011 for a
position at Harvard Law School, was appointed to the bench in 1994
by President William J. Clinton after two decades of criminal
defense and civil activist work. In 2008, Gertner became the second
woman to receive the Thurgood Marshall Award from the American Bar
Association's Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities.
Voted by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly readers as one of
the "best" federal judges in Boston, Gertner has also been awarded
Lawyers Weekly's Judge Toomey Judicial Excellence Award,
the 2006 Massachusetts Bar Foundation's "Great Friend of Justice
Award," the 2007 Suffolk University of Law Charles P. Kindregan
Award and the 2010 Morton A. Brody Distinguished Judicial Service
Award.

A distinguished academic, lawyer and judge, Gertner's
autobiography, In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant
Advocate, will be released in April 2011. As a lawyer, Gertner
taught at Boston University Law School, Boston College Law School
and Harvard Law School and as a judge, Gertner taught for over 10
years at Yale Law School. Since becoming a judge, Gertner has also
traveled widely, teaching women's rights and human rights, most
recently working with Chinese judges and scholars on sentencing
reform.

The Hennessey Award is awarded to federal or state judges
within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts who have demonstrated
extraordinary leadership and dedication to improving the
administration of justice and upholding the highest traditions for
public service.

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Centennial Conference sponsor. Click here for sponsorship information and a
current list of sponsors.